Hey, maybe this time around they can have Dwight Howard on the show: “Alphabet net has given a second season order to ‘Shaq Vs.,’ its summer reality series starring basketball star Shaquille O’Neal. Media Rights Capital and Dick Clark Prods. are behind the unscripted series, and will produce six episodes of the show. ‘Shaq Vs.’ stars O’Neal as he faces off against top athletes in their respective fields. In season one, O’Neal faced off against the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger in football, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh in beach volleyball, the St. Louis Cardinals’ Albert Pujols in baseball, Oscar de la Hoya in boxing and Michael Phelps in swimming. Despite being given a handicap advantage, O’Neal wound up losing each week.”

The Diesel claims his show is a different animal from what Steve Nash had envisioned: “Don’t call him the Big Rip-off: Shaquille O’Neal says ex-teammate Steve Nash’s idea for a TV show was ‘slightly different’ from ‘Shaq VS.’ At an appearance Saturday to promote an upcoming episode in which he’ll swim against Olympic star Michael Phelps, O’Neal said: ‘Everyone in America has similar ideas. He had a similar idea’…O’Neal said Saturday that Nash’s idea was about training with other athletes, not competing against them. O’Neal also noted that Nash is an executive producer on his ABC show.”